Improvement in clothes-pins



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THE GRAPHIC C0.PHOTO LITY'LSQ 3:41 PARK PLACE,NY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTIS F. PORTER, BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-PINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,840, dated March 16, 1875; application led November 7, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OTIs F. PORTER, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Clothes-Pins, of which theA person who is hanging out clothes to change the pin end for end in order to get it in a proper position.

I am aware that a clothespin has been made of two pieces of wood, connected by wires that also serve as springs and allow the ends to open and close; but- What I claim is- A new article of manufacture, consisting of two strips, A A, having end bevel B, an intermediate elastic block, C, and a wire band, l), that surrounds the strips and block, as shown and described, to form a double clothes-pin.

OTIS F. PORTER.

Witnesses:

B. F. HUNT, F. S. HUNT. 

